Marks wrote:
"Doesn't this ask a question that we have to answer outside of Scripture? It seems a reasonable conclusion, breath, blood, oxygen, OK, just the same, in saying, the life is in the blood, there's no specific that says it's talking about oxygen. Though I wouldn't have a problem with that."
EB's reply:
What you wrote, is typically the thinking of most denominations, as they try to divorce themselves from the years and years of tradition, pounded into them hundreds of times.
Not until 1772 did anyone ever understand WHAT "the breath of life" was, so believe it or not, thousands of years ago, out of ignorance, they came up with a theory and put a "religious spin" on it.
Since way back then, it has become the mantra for most all of the churches all this time, and has become the pivot and the divide of every topic in the Bible, confusing the issues of death, resurrection, heaven, hell, the saved and the unsaved, the1000 years, the New heavens/earth, Jerusalem, of great tribulation, that spirit of antichrist, the MoB,
....and even the parables of Jesus.
WHY?
Ans. All because they refuse to accept WHAT the breath of life really is!!
Oxygenated Air, that we and all the "air breathing" animals breathe.